King's College Chapel

Reginald Ely, the first master mason; John Wastell, the master mason who saw the building to completion
1446-1536

Chapel from The Backs

Henry VI (1421-71) founded King's College in 1441, although the construction of the chapel he had planned took several decades to build and he did not live to see its completion. Probably the most famous of all the college buildings in Cambridge, it is designed in the Perpendicular Gothic style. (Gibbs's Fellows' Building is to the right.)